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How Many Different Coin Shops Have You Visited?

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 Posted 08/24/2017  01:59 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Fuzzy317 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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A baked beans fan, are you?

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 Posted 08/24/2017  05:09 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add january1may to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It's hard to say what counts as coin shops vs. antique shops that sell coins (often in a special room or section) vs. regular assorted stuff shops that happen to have coins in the inventory. Never mind stamp and/or banknote shops that also sell coins - which can show up in some hobby malls...
(I've even bought some coins from a newspaper stand once... okay, three times. From three different places. How do you count that?)
Also I'm not sure how to count weekend market stalls (some of the ones at the Vernisage are at the exact same spot week after week). And some of those focus on antiques more than coins, as well...
And how to count Taganka, an open-air coin market on a street corner? It's kind of like a coin show, but I don't think you can have a coin show that is open most of the day every day.
(How do you count street vendors that sell coins, for that matter? Pretty sure I've even seen one that sold only coins once in Nessebar.)

As such, depending on your definition of "coin shop" (and "visited", for that matter - does it count, for example, if I never bought anything there because I wasn't interested in any coins offered and/or because it was all way out of my budget?), the answer could vary widely.
I'd estimate the amount of different coin shops I visited to be somewhere between 10 and 150 (and the minimum value mostly consists of tiny hobby mall spots where I bought 1-2 coins once and hardly ever went there again - most of the bigger places that I regularly visit sell a lot of non-coin stuff and/or are market stalls).
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I am sort of surprised at the low number some members ...

I thought I was sort of average .. I never thought about counting them.

I can think easily in the 20 range ... most likely closer to 40.

I have lived in several areas that have a lot of coin shops. Also
when I take long trips I will look for out of the way coin shops.
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In my area there is only one coin shop left in about a 15 mile radius. But there's a flea market right down the road that is open Wednesdays and Saturdays that have a few coin vendors there.
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Three in 55 years of collecting. I won't go out of my way to visit one.
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over the years I would guess around 20, from panama city fl. to asheville nc through gatlinburg tenn.
never bought a single coin because they were over priced in my opinion .
been to 4 this year.

plus I love baked beans sometimes with franks in them

o,yes two in the Bahamas and one somewhere else down that way
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6 I can name
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Many through many travels -- east to west and north to south.

Now quite a few online.

Currently the closest is 30 miles away, but its a good one.
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Counting all the previously mentioned categories; brick & mortar, coin shows, antique stores and pawn shops, it's probably about 15 or so. When the closest B&M is an hour away you have to find them where you can.
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Only one for me. Not a shop as such, but a dealer that has a regular stall at the market every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. I visit most weeks. He holds a huge stock and very varied ancient right thought to modern and large selection of banknotes.
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I've only started collecting about 4 months ago and have been to one coin shop in my area. Its really a mix of coins, cards and video gaming shop. The guys are knowledgeable and answer any questions you have, but I always get the feeling that I have to double check any information they give me.

The more information I am collecting the more I am realizing its very hard to get a deal out of these places and I am thinking you really have to hit places like pawn shops, flee markets and garage sales to find something nice and rare at a price I can afford.

I want to go downtown and visit a few exclusively coin oriented shops, but I feel intimidated when thinking of these places. I currently just browse the web and window shop various auction based websites.

My next ambition is to attend a coin show of sorts and see what those are like.

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Let me be the odd note here. Hundreds, in dozens of countries, and even more if you include antiques shops. But I have only 4 of them which I visit on a regular basis.
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I just noticed this thread.
Really depends on what you classify as a coin shop. I have definitely visited 7-10 bona fide coin shops and many more pawn/jewelry shops that have coin sections/displays.
Only one coin shop that I visit regularly.
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Started going out of my way to look for coin shops, and I've logged at least 27 places that sell coins over the past year. Most of them have had very little in stock and were not worth returning to but I've found a couple of gems recently. I have one main person I go to regularly.
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